Background
When You Xie was born, there was a famine in China. He grew up during the cultural revolution and could therefore not the school, but had to work in the country.
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When You Xie was born, there was a famine in China. He grew up during the cultural revolution and could therefore not the school, but had to work in the country.
From 1979 to 1983 he studied German and English at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. In 1988, he came to study at the Otto-Friedrich University, Bamberg and studied German language and literature, journalism and European Ethnology. In 1993 he graduated on the press policies of the Communist Party of China.
From 1993 to 1996, he studied law at the Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg.
After graduation (Bachelor), he worked as an interpreter at Volkswagen in Shanghai. At the time of the Tiananmen-massacre he was Chairman of the Association of Chinese students and scholars in Germany e.V. in 1999 he founded the Chinese language journal European Chinese news that 2011 was their appearance. You Xie is editor of the Europe of the Christian magazine "Overseas Campus" since 2006.
In 2010, You Xie came in the selection of the top 100 Chinese public intellectuals.
He got 141 of 220 votes. So the best result of all county board members.
On July 26, 2013, You Xie was elected by the Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) Member Assembly with 97 of 110 votes on the candidate list for 29th place for the City Council election 2014. At the election, Xie was elected with the most votes of all Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) candidate for the City Council.
Since 2010, he has German citizenship.
Xie is a descendant of Xie An (Chinese 謝安, pinyin Xiè Ān, 320-385), the Duke Wenjing of Luling during the Jin dynasty, in 56. Generation. His great-aunt was Xie Fei (Chinese 谢飞, pinyin Fēi Xiè, 1913-2013) from Wenchang, Hainan Province. Xie Fei participated in the long March in 1934 and was the third wife of Liu Shaoqi, the President of People"s Republic of China from 1959 to 1968.
On 20 April 2013, the members of the Bamberg Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) selected Xie in the county board.